Problem Does Age affect your reaction timing? Introduction Have you ever wondered what things you lose or gain with age? Well I don’t have the time to test for everything, but I was looking on the internet for a good science fair project. I saw this test and thought this would be a really fun and interesting thing to try. It will involve reaction time and comparing the effect of age on it.
Background Information Age- how old or how young something is
Affect- how something changes from some sort of cause.
Hypothesis I predict that the older the people are, the longer take it will take them to catch the falling ruler. Materials
Ruler
5 10-15 year old girls
5 10-15 year old boys
5 20-45 year old girls
5 20-45 year old boys
5 46-65 year old girls
5 46-65 year old boys
Procedure
Find all materials
Have every person from each category one by one come to me
Hold a ruler above their fingers about half an inch.
Drop the ruler and see how many inches their finger land on
The bigger the number, the slower the reaction time
Results The average by gender and age
10-15 girls-5.73 inches
10-15 boys-5.4 inches
20-45 girls-4.89 inches
20-45 boys-5.86 inches
46-65 girls-7.53 inches
46-65 boys-5.87 inches Conclusion In the end their wasn’t really much of a conclusion. My table and graph show that there is not a relationship. Some of the adults averages were not as fast or as slow as the younger people. Some were a lot longer and others were slower. But not a constant relationship. Possible Causes of Error Difference in age groups
Possible Applications Testing reaction timing in if older people should be aloud to drive or not. In driving you are going to need a fairly good reaction timing of course. If we do these tests we might be able to make driving safer by eliminating people with too slow of a reaction time to drive. In result not as many accidents will happen if the only people who drive are the one with a fast enough reaction to hit the brakes when needed. Time Spent September-December
Acknowledgements Victoria McManus
Mr. Durahm
Rachel Carter
Mr. Brownlee
Maryn Robson
Mr. Ames
Aubree Nuest
Mrs. Ricker
Taylor Wood
Mrs. Krueger
Zach Brashear
Mrs. Prather
Trey Wrench
Mrs. Calderwood
Matt Stover
Mrs. Peterson
Tanner Stallings
Trey Bagby
Mrs. Riffel
Mrs. Ball
Mrs. Schechter
Mrs. Roland
Mrs. Flickinger
Mr. Anderson
Mr. Schneider
Mr. Bauerle
Mr. Badore
Mr. Feil
Mr. Weiner
Mr. Comley
Does Age affect your reaction timing?
Introduction
Have you ever wondered what things you lose or gain with age? Well I don’t have the time to test for everything, but I was looking on the internet for a good science fair project. I saw this test and thought this would be a really fun and interesting thing to try. It will involve reaction time and comparing the effect of age on it.
Background Information
Age- how old or how young something is
Affect- how something changes from some sort of cause.
Hypothesis
I predict that the older the people are, the longer take it will take them to catch the falling ruler.
Materials
- Ruler
- 5 10-15 year old girls
- 5 10-15 year old boys
- 5 20-45 year old girls
- 5 20-45 year old boys
- 5 46-65 year old girls
- 5 46-65 year old boys
Procedure- Find all materials
- Have every person from each category one by one come to me
- Hold a ruler above their fingers about half an inch.
- Drop the ruler and see how many inches their finger land on
- The bigger the number, the slower the reaction time
ResultsThe average by gender and age
10-15 girls-5.73 inches
10-15 boys-5.4 inches
20-45 girls-4.89 inches
20-45 boys-5.86 inches
46-65 girls-7.53 inches
46-65 boys-5.87 inches
Conclusion
In the end their wasn’t really much of a conclusion. My table and graph show that there is not a relationship. Some of the adults averages were not as fast or as slow as the younger people. Some were a lot longer and others were slower. But not a constant relationship.
Possible Causes of Error
Difference in age groups
Possible Applications
Testing reaction timing in if older people should be aloud to drive or not. In driving you are going to need a fairly good reaction timing of course. If we do these tests we might be able to make driving safer by eliminating people with too slow of a reaction time to drive. In result not as many accidents will happen if the only people who drive are the one with a fast enough reaction to hit the brakes when needed.
Time Spent
September-December
Acknowledgements
Victoria McManus
Mr. Durahm
Rachel Carter
Mr. Brownlee
Maryn Robson
Mr. Ames
Aubree Nuest
Mrs. Ricker
Taylor Wood
Mrs. Krueger
Zach Brashear
Mrs. Prather
Trey Wrench
Mrs. Calderwood
Matt Stover
Mrs. Peterson
Tanner Stallings
Trey Bagby
Mrs. Riffel
Mrs. Ball
Mrs. Schechter
Mrs. Roland
Mrs. Flickinger
Mr. Anderson
Mr. Schneider
Mr. Bauerle
Mr. Badore
Mr. Feil
Mr. Weiner
Mr. Comley